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To be annoyed when people say ....

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 14:22

low key ? For example someone says " does this top not low key go with these jeans" it seems to be used all the time now. Maybe annoyed is not the right word but it's irritating 🤣 . Light-hearted post really. Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?

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EternalSunshine19 · 12/02/2025 16:34

JollyHolly30 · 12/02/2025 15:01

I can't stand 'it's giving..'

ie "this skirt is giving 70's glam" or
"it's giving 'obsessed with your ex' "

😡

I completely agree!!

Also hate when people say "vibes" to describe something, when it's not a descriptive word:
"its such a vibe"
"its giving vibes"
"omg vibes"

notacooldad · 12/02/2025 16:32

My pet hate is ‘I swear down’
🙄
I use this!
It started as a way of winding ds2 up when he was a teen but it stuck. I work with teens and I pick their lingo up, use it at home without thinking and drive Dh and ds mad!

notacooldad · 12/02/2025 16:30

Is this a northern thing? Not heard it here in my little corner of SE.
I was just thinking the same, I've never heard this (also in SE)

I've not heard it being used within my northern boundary!

DemonicCaveMaggot · 12/02/2025 16:29

Everyone who uses 'signpost' as a verb can just fuck right off too.

HRHTheQueenMuffinTop · 12/02/2025 16:28

beasmithwentworth · 12/02/2025 16:23

Yes 2 teens and every other word is low key at the moment. I find it quite amusing (but obviously don't let them know that. It's just nice to have a conversation with them!)

I did use it in response to one of them last night and got a look of horror however!

I totally put my teens off using 'Slay' by adopting it.

Pity. I low key liked 'Slay'.

beasmithwentworth · 12/02/2025 16:24

'I low key think I'm gonna dye my hair darker next time like coz I literally low key hated it how it went last time' etc

beasmithwentworth · 12/02/2025 16:23

Yes 2 teens and every other word is low key at the moment. I find it quite amusing (but obviously don't let them know that. It's just nice to have a conversation with them!)

I did use it in response to one of them last night and got a look of horror however!

DressOrSkirt · 12/02/2025 16:21

Bumcake · 12/02/2025 16:18

I would take “low key love” to mean “like”. Which is shorter and clearer to say, so why bother?

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Because I don't think it's the same. You can love something in a low key manner.

Wishboneswishes · 12/02/2025 16:19

Never heard low key in this context at all.

My pet hate is ‘I swear down’

🙄

Bumcake · 12/02/2025 16:18

DressOrSkirt · 12/02/2025 16:11

It doesn't really make sense how your daughter has used it and I haven't heard it like that.

But for example "I low-key love this song" means I love this song but I'm not going to scream every time it comes on the radio. So low-key doesn't bother me in that sense.

I would take “low key love” to mean “like”. Which is shorter and clearer to say, so why bother?

Hazylazydays · 12/02/2025 16:17

From the get go 😖

it weird, why not just say from the start or the beginning!

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 16:16

QuinionsRainbow · 12/02/2025 16:13

My pet hate, still round after all these years, is LIKE, as in:

I, like, have to, like, say that I, like, don't like it, like!

I very nearly typed like in one of my posts and deleted it 🤣

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QuinionsRainbow · 12/02/2025 16:13

My pet hate, still round after all these years, is LIKE, as in:

I, like, have to, like, say that I, like, don't like it, like!

Kingsleadhat · 12/02/2025 16:13

butterpuffed · 12/02/2025 15:27

People saying something gives them them the ick.

Posters ending a sentence with , no?

I really hate ending a sentence 'no?' For some reason it sounds condescending

JudgeJ · 12/02/2025 16:13

tobee · 12/02/2025 15:30

Slightly different maybe, but have you noticed that everyone is "welcoming a baby" or they "welcomed their first baby in 2021" etc in news articles? Does anyone say that in real life? Why can't they just say "had a baby"? It isn’t offensive, is it?

Seems to have replaced the overused term in the msm when everyone was a "national treasure". Although now though everything is "iconic". 🙄

Edited

It seems that these days people go round to 'meet' a new baby, to me, if I meet someone, there is an element of a 2-way interaction, what the visitor is doing is seeing the new baby, who really couldn't care less.

DressOrSkirt · 12/02/2025 16:11

It doesn't really make sense how your daughter has used it and I haven't heard it like that.

But for example "I low-key love this song" means I love this song but I'm not going to scream every time it comes on the radio. So low-key doesn't bother me in that sense.

DemonicCaveMaggot · 12/02/2025 16:11

'Reaching out' - You are not one of the Four Tops
'Unpicking and unpacking' absolutely everything
Curating - how to tell me you spend too much of your time following influencers without actually telling me

Why is it that most British people can't complete a sentence without the words 'proper' and/or vulnerable'?

Bbq1 · 12/02/2025 16:10

RedRobyn2021 · 12/02/2025 15:50

I live in the north and say this, not in that context though

I'll say in reference to plans

"Feel like doing something low key this weekend"

That is the true meaning of low key. I don't even understand how anyone could say "I low key like these jeans". I would understand i don't like these jeans all that much.

Wendolino · 12/02/2025 16:07

ThatEllie · 12/02/2025 15:05

Lowkey annoyed with the posters that didn’t bother to read the OP and are posting random phrases that annoy them. 😂

Even though OP asked "Are there any sayings that seem to be "trending" that annoys you ?"

Bbq1 · 12/02/2025 16:07

I absolutely detest it when posters on here say, "My vagina has just clamped/slammed shut". It's a horrible image and makes me wince. I also cannot stand, "That comment made my teeth itch". What does itchy teeth even mean? These phrases are only heard on mn not irl.

FartyAnimal · 12/02/2025 16:06

"I don't want to cause offence, but ..."

Well - you obviously are so just shut the fuck up.

denhaag · 12/02/2025 16:03

HelpMeUnpickThis · 12/02/2025 15:53

I really can’t get on board with the annoyance.

I still remember my teens and we had stupid words that make no sense.

I am grateful that my children are able to come to me and say these extremely random, senseless (to me) words and phrases.

Making fun of these words/phrases in private is fine but I am very grateful that my children still even engage me on conversations.

Anonymous forum = not private, but I'm pretty sure none of our teenagers are going to find out we've been joking about their language, and even if they did they probably wouldn't care because we can't possibly understand the modern world.

Me getting it off my chest here is more private than DS overhearing me on the phone.
Not that I've thrown any of his phrases in the bag, I think he tends not to use them with me lest I try and get down with the kidz and start using new words with his mates.

MoonWoman69 · 12/02/2025 16:03

I know someone who says "know what I mean" literally after every sentence if she's telling me a long story or making a comment on something. Even when I've interjected that I do, it doesn't stop! I thought this had gone out of fashion years ago! It used to annoy me back then!
I live in the North and have never heard low key used like this! I've heard people say "it was a low key affair" as in a small event they've been to. But in the context you've given an example of, it sounds ridiculous and would annoy me instantly!

Girasole02 · 12/02/2025 16:03

'If that makes sense' at the end of a sentence.

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Newmumburnout · 12/02/2025 16:01

strongswan · 12/02/2025 15:57

Low key doesn't bother me. I'm another who loathes hearing 'it's giving' though!

Yes me aswell, "it's giving holiday vibes" 🙈

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